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It is, in a sense, uncontained.
( How nice )
Alright, so you'll surely just bypass this rule by creating 20 unheeding organic murder machines that shred everything in your path?
Ah ah ah, will you, oh Changelig?
How will they know what to shred if you do not tell them what to shred? Because if they can't spend their own AP you will have to spend 1 AP to direct them.
Oh, but surely, I can simply shout "KILL" and then the 20 biologically ravenous fox-creatures I've outfitted with acid stingers and the ability to shrug off bullets will nicely and effectively do full target selection for me, right? Something like:
>1AP ORDER MY FOXMONSTERS TO KILL THOSE PEOPLE
Oh yeah.
... Oh yeah.
You go ahead and do that. That doesn't sound like it has bad implications for the health of anyone in the neighbourhood, what with the inability to discriminate and the high likely the unthinking automaton with no sapience of its own messes up your directives.
So you hopefully see the choice now: You get a cool external manifestation that you *must pilot*.
>1AP: Tell creature xx to go do yyy
And you must pilot each one, individually. If you give group orders - and you are WELCOME to give group orders - then unthinking external manifestations simply do... what those orders. . . kinda sound like.
>1AP: Order all my creatures to get that door open.
Command wonders how the foxes are going to get that door open. Or how many of them will interpret the concept of "door" correctly, if you're ordering 20 of them to do a thing.
Or you take that first step, let it loose out of containment, give it the ability to spend its own AP and MP, and then you've got yourself a willing hotshot Trooper that backs you up every step of the way and falls in line and *will* do proper target selection and can be ordered around en-masse because they're not going to be dumb as a bag of bricks with the ability to destroy a village.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu--uuuu---uuuuttt you might get a sliver of the old *independence*.
If you want to bestow Will, you can do it for free as part of a Manifest, or as a simple 1 AP skill-test to shuffle those external features around if the creature/target is within range. That really does make them so much better at interpreting orders.
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>ESCAPE PHASE
>THAT MEANS YOU LOT
>GIVEN THE FACT THAT MOST SUBJECTS HAVE ESCAPED, YOUR TIMELINE IS **SHORTENING**
>ACT FAST.
